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My 2 year old figure 8 seems to be developing a growth (?) under his chin. Its under the skin, just looks swollen. No discoloration. He seems to be eating normally and active at the moment but he also seems to be loosing weight despite healthy feeding. Anyone ever hear of this before?

He's in a 10 gallon tank at about SG 0.008 more or less. I do pretty regular water changes and nitrates arent high. Feeding snails and frozen krill, with the occasional fast day.

How regular are your "pretty regular" water changes and how much do you change?

I read a thread on this before I think it was HRPuffersnStuff F8, the growth grew then popped and went down on its own if I recall correctly. DO a search in the Brackish Puffers section.

I meant this post.
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/vie ... php?t=6126

50% water changes every 1-2 weeks. I know its policy to grill noobs on water changes I actually do know quite a bit about puffer care and aquariums in general. I used to post a lot on here when I first got him. Just not much since the forum went down a year ago (hence my low post count).

I looked at that other thread. The deformation on mine is further back, like under the articulation of the lower jaw and is not red. I'll get a good pic of him tonight and post it.

My puffer's growth started out white as well, then it began to turn red and swell a lot. After way too much worry, he got over it and was back to his normal self again.

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